Building VPython from source

To compile VPython 6.00 or later from source on any platform (Windows,
Linux/Unix, Macintosh), start by downloading the files from github.com/BruceSherwood/vpython-wx. For Linux, see the instructions in the INSTALL.txt
files. For Windows, see VCbuild/VCBuild.txt. For Macintosh, see MAC-OSX.txt. In most cases you should be able to build and install using the setup.py mechanism.

Here are notes on
what was required to compile Visual on Windows using the gtkmm libraries
that are also available on other platforms. This approach was overly
complicated and has been abandoned in favor of wxPython.

One does need to find or create binaries of specific
Boost libraries for Windows and Macintosh, to provide the glue between
the Visual C++ code and Python. These are needed whether building using
gtkmm or not.